Author: Bell, H T Mackenzie
Title: A Forgotten Genius: Charles Whitehead - A Critical Monograph
Description: Elliot Stock, 1884, 1st edition. Cloth, G+. x+297pp, cloth rubbed at the edges & to the rear panel, one gather a little loose, a good copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Biography & critique of the Victorian Novelist Whitehead [ 1804 - 1862 ]. After the success of his novel 'Jack Ketch' he was asked to write monthly tales to accompany illustrations by Robert Seymour. Whitehead declined, saying it was beyond him & put forward the name of a good friend of his - Charles Dickens. Dickens accepted & wrote 'The Pickwick Papers'. His career & life was ruined by drink.

Keywords: biography, literature